Nintendo had a thing recently where they said some stuff to keep their investors happy. It was at this thing that they announced Wii Party and that Apple is their future enemy. They also mentioned that as of March 2010, 79 Wii games have shipped 1 million or more copies worldwide. A year earlier, that number was at 54. As you math-fans in the audience have already concluded, that means that in the past 12 months, 25 more Wii games have managed to achieve that magic, arbitrary, badge of success known as "million-sold mark".
Want to know what those 25 games are? Of course you do, but since this is the videogame industry we're talking about, we're not going to find out. I recently asked Activision to comment on VGChartz's report that Modern Warfare Reflex Edition has sold over a million copies, and they wouldn't talk. TV producers have no problem letting us know about the ratings of their shows, and film studios have no issue letting us know when their movies succeed or fail, but the game industry wont budge on questions like this. Makes you wonder why they're so paranoid and over-controlling.
When we can't get official statements, all we can do is guess. For first party games, Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Wii Fit Plus are known million sellers. There's also a good chance that Punch-Out!! and Endless Ocean reached the million-mark sometime after March 2009. As for third parties, we know that Monster Hunter Tri and Just Dance have sold well over a million copies, and that's all I got for official numbers; leaving 7 down, and 18 to go. Could the previously mentioned Modern Warfare Reflex be in there? House of the Dead: Overkill? Guitar Hero 5? Your guess is as good as mine.
If you've got numbers I haven't seen, or guesses that you'd like to share, hit that comment button posthaste.
Wii sees 79 million sellers- [Gonintendo via VGChartz]
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12:00 PM on 05.09.2010 | 
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You know the Princess from Super Mario Bros. Dude, you'll be back home playing Nintendo in an hour.
I know, profits and all, but the only games I see that are $20 for the Wii/DS are mostly ones I don't want as it is.
Being a frugal gamer sucks sometimes.
The Wii does have a budget, "Player's Choice" style line of games. In Japan.
I guess the rest of us just aren't worthy.
Funny though, that I can import Muramasa for cheaper than what I can find it around here. Geez.
Lets see, I think it would probably go like this...
75% Justin Beiber, Hannah Montana, Glee, Harry potter.
25% the "hardcore"
Oh wait, Beiber is pretty hardcore, forget what I just said
Oh, and Monster Hunter 3 has sold a million units in Japan. We won't know how it's faring in the US until NPDs on Thursday.
I see that HungLaser beat me to it.
Wikipedia has a list of 41 titles that are known to have shipped or sold at least 1 million copies.
Link's Crossbow Training has apparently sold 4.8 million. Other games on the list include Deca Sports, Game Party 2, We Ski, Active Life Outdoor Challenge, EA Sports Active, and last and certainly least we have Big Beach Sports and Carnival Games.
Nice lineup. No wonder there is no Player's Choice. The majority of million sellers are trash.
That's why the way they do it in Japan is much better. Rather than make the "Player's Choice" re-releases based on sales, it's based on votes conducted on the Everybody Votes Channel.
Too bad Nintendo of America is too busy making money hand over fist to bother passing the savings on to us.
A lot of those games on that list have sold 2, 4, 6, 10, 15, 20+ million units. So to say they just shipped a million, yeah that might be true for a few games on the list, but the vast majority of those million sellers are multi-million sellers.
Shipped means Nintendo sold 1 million or more copies to retailers, who then have to sell it to you and I, the consumer.
Sold means they actually sold them to consumers, not just the store.
VGchartz's numbers aren't perfect, but they do a pretty good job of correcting their sales data when new info comes around. So, the first 80 games on that list there should give you a pretty good idea of the worldwide million sellers. I'm too lazy to go through and figure out which of those games are from 09 and 10, but you guys are welcome to try.
Nintendo typically is very solid about using NPD and other regions' official SOLD numbers in press releases. For investor reports like these, it uses shipped numbers, but there is a huge difference between today's notion of "shipped" and the Atari era's "shipped."
Because of the problem of overshipping nearly three decades ago, software companies have done a better job of shipping out product in smaller amounts and then restocking once supply runs low. So when you see a number like "1.5 million shipped," you can be confident that the actual sold number is most likely greater than a million. For those on the borderline, they'll probably hit the sold mark in a few short weeks or months. You will never see another Pac-Man case in which 12 million copies were shipped but only 7 million were sold, leaving millions of unmovable units to rot. Likewise, you won't see a game today ship over a million units but only sold in the low thousands.
Also, Wikipedia is waaaaaaaaay, waaaaaaaaay behind on the up-to-date million sellers.
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